ipkg ?

RouterOS Virtualization
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Hi Mikrotikers !

I’ve been using the product for a long time but have only today ventured into the Metarouter menu :slight_smile:

I’ve setup OpenWRT using the “default” image from http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter.

How do I install additional packages ?
I cannot find ipkg ??

Thanks for any help to get me started

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that’s more a question for the openwrt forum.

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thanks for the prompt reply, I’m guessing the question that I’m asking is that whoever complied the image for OpenWRT downloadable from your website perhaps intentionally left out this feature ? if so? are the implications for the router ?

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no, basically you can put any OS on there. That image is there only for convenience sake.

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thanks again
Sorry for all the n00b questions

So what format do these images need to be ?
Is it simply a matter of something like dd if=/ of=my.img and uploading ?
is there a specification that these images must meet to operate in Metarouter

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so what about this section of the mentioned manual :slight_smile: ?

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter#Building_your_own_OpenWRT_image